MODELS FOR ANTIBODY ATTACHMENT TO VIRUS AND BACTERIOPHAGE

Abstract

Several interesting mathematical problems concerned with partition into classes, and surface covering are suggested by the physical mechanisms and geometry of antibody attachment to virus particles. This paper outlines some of the recent work done in this area by Yassky (1962), the author (1965a, and b), Moran and Fazekas de St. Groth (1962) and Gilbert (1965), adds a model and other extensions of the author, and concludes with a suggestion for further investigations. The author has endeavoured throughout to hold the mathematical argument at a simple level, and to emphasize the model-building aspect of the work, in the hope that virologists may be tempted to use and perhaps verify experimentally some of the models put forward.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1966
Accession Number
AD0634306

Entities

People

  • J. Gani

Organizations

  • Michigan State University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Antibodies
  • Attachment
  • Classification
  • Commerce
  • Contractors
  • Contracts
  • Instructions
  • Mathematics
  • Michigan
  • Military Research
  • Security
  • Universities
  • Viral Structures
  • Virion
  • Viruses

Readers

  • Mathematical Modeling and Probability Theory.
  • Theoretical Analysis.
  • Virology (or Medical Virology).